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'''''Must not be confused with the [[Tempest|real-life Game Master]], who runs the game.<br/> For the fought encounters, refer to the following links:''''' [[Hebizuka Jinkou (encounter)]] - [[game masters encounter|Game Masters (encounter)]]<br/>
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'''''This article is about the in-game term. For the real-life administrator and author, i.e. the real life person who has written and runs MazeWorld, see [[Tempest]].'''''
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A '''Game Master''', in-universe (Also called simply a '''GM''') is a supernatural and immortal being that rules and administrates [[Mazeworld]].
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An '''Administrator''' (also referred to as an '''Admin''') is the common name given to the supernatural and deity-like being that rules and administrates [[MazeWorld]]. The only known administrator is [[Hebizuka Jinkou]], making her the effective overseer of the Mazes in their entirety.
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=== Overview ===
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=== Origins and abilities ===
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Their immense power and near complete control of Mazeworld is explained by the fact they have created the entire realm, and exist solely thanks to them. It is unknown why or how Mazeworld was created, but numerous rumors circulate between its dwellers and inhabitants, going as far as to call the GMs deities; although not many people really believe they are, and the GMs themselves do not like this definition, it's technically right.
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Game Masters are essentially immortal concentrations of sentient energy, but have the power to materialize for themselves a &quot;shell&quot;, which is nothing more than a body to house their true selves - which can be described as their &quot;souls&quot; of sorts. They are known to having no need to eat, sleep, regenerate, or reproduce, although they do willingly consume certain beverages for pleasure - most notably '''coffee'''.
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An immortal and immaterial concentration of sentient energy, referred to as the '''Entity''', forms what is essentially the Admin's "soul". The Entity has the power to inhabit one or many "shells", which is nothing more than a host body. While this body they inhabit needs not to be originally that of a living creature, the Entity prefers to inhabit the bodies of living creatures and seem to be attracted by beings of peculiar, unique character and personality. Creatures inhabited by the Entity are also known to have no need to eat, drink, sleep, or reproduce, though can choose to do so as they please and if they so wish. '''Any shell the Entity chooses to inhabit, automatically reaches the status of Administrator''', as well as the above described traits (immortality, inediate, etc). The Entity does not overtake or alter their shells' personality, but does ensure they are aware and conscious of their newfound capabilities.
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=== Identity of the Game Masters ===
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The Admin's immense power and near complete control of MazeWorld is explained by the fact the Entity inhabiting them has created the entire realm, and maintains its existence as long as the Entity can inhabit a shell - in order for the realm to remain stable and keep its coherence, the source of this realm must also preserve its stability and coherence. It is unknown why or how MazeWorld was created at all, and Hebizuka herself has never given any insight or explanation, despite there being no evidence that any beings have been inhabited by the Entity before her.
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There are three Game Masters in Mazeworld. Despite the fact they are their own kind of being, the GMs take up recognizable appearances for their own convenience. They have separate given names, but they prefer being called &quot;Game Master&quot; or &quot;GM&quot;.
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The first takes the appearance of a human male. His name is '''Sergey Mikoyan''', and he is the GM [[Contestant|contestants]] hear on the loudspeakers in every [[Room|room]] of the mazes. Being the only GM heard by contestants, it is widely believed he is the only one who has the ability to talk - although all three GMs are capable of speaking. His job is to watch over the contestants and track their performance and statistics.
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The Entity, when [[Endgame|threatened by a being sufficiently strong]] to challenge its shells directly, seems to "disable" those shells' immortality (though they remain extremely resistant to damage); it seems capable of recognizing worthy potential challengers and will encourage the current Admin to fight whomever is contending to "succeed" to them. As such, the Entity seems to have a mind on its own in the sense that it will choose, as its new shells, the bodies of whoever defeated the current one. Depending on the situation, the Entity can simply inhabit the new bodies and also remain in the current ones' ('''addition process'''), or leave altogether the old ones and elevate the new ones to Admin status ('''replacement process''').
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The second takes the appearance of a youkai female. Her name is '''Hebizuka Jinkou''', and she is the GM charged of randomness, room generation, and so on. She is sometimes referred to as the '''RNG''', a double entendre on &quot;Random Number Generator&quot; - which is her main method of working - and on &quot;Random Number God&quot;, which is basically, what she is.
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Should it fail to find at least one new suitable shell, the Entity's stability will be compromised, and it will lose its coherence and eventually collapse. This threatens the entire realm, which can be potentially completely erased from existence ('''termination process''') as a result. It must be noted that there are no limits on how many beings the Entity can inhabit at once - while it needs at least one to sustain itself, it can inhabit as many as required, it would simply mean all of the resulting Admins would need to cooperate to manage the Mazes together.
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The third takes the appearance of a genderless cyborg, although referred to as male. His name is '''Elias Keiban''', and is the GM in charge of the Maze Personnel, the monsters and everything found in the rooms, living or not. He is the one who brings up ideas of new items, creatures, and other things to add to Mazeworld, and manages those already existing.
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=== Identity and purpose ===
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Currently there is only one Administrator: Hebizuka Jinkou.
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=== Origins ===
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==== Hebizuka Jinkou ====
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''[[Hebizuka Jinkou]] redirects here.''
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The GMs are the most important beings of Mazeworld as a realm. Acting as overseers, administrators and treated as highly as deities by denizens of the Mazes, the Game Masters are however, not living beings in the regular sense.
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* Form: Youkai female (species: nure-onna)
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The bodies of Game Masters are merely physical embodiments of '''an extremely powerful, but formless entity''', which has no name but is the source of the immense powers a GM enjoys, but also the very source of stability for Mazeworld as a realm. This entity "possesses", in a way, a physical body, in order to be able to actually exert control on Mazeworld and do the jobs a GM has to do.
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In the event those bodies are destroyed or no longer usable for any reason, the entity leaves this body, and seeks out for a replacement. Generally, whatever killed or destroyed the body becomes the new host, gaining Game Master powers and instantly being elevated to the same rank as one. It is also possible for the entity to seek out for additional bodies to possess, to be able to exert greater control, or on the physical bodies' request, if they see fit to have an extra member in their ranks.
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Hebizuka Jinkou, sometimes referred to as "Lady Hebizuka" by members of the personnel, and informally but very occasionally as "Hebi", is currently the only Administrator.
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As a rule of thumb, the entity needs at least one host body to be able to retain stability, but it will always seek out at least two, or three, sometimes more than three, simply to ensure self-preservation.
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Being the only Admin, she performs various tasks as the Administrator of the Mazes; primarily as an overseer, watching over the Mazes, its inhabitants and creatures, and their whereabouts. She also serves as the direct superior to the top positions in the Mazes, and may occasionally give direct orders to the personnel if there needs to be something done that doesn't require direct Admin intervention. Typically however, Hebizuka contents herself with simply watching the Mazes rather than intervene directly, finding the world to be, in her words, "much more interesting when it achieves things on its own rather than being manipulated to do so".
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Without a host body, however, the entity would be left without any way to control the realm and keep it in check. The entity is merely a source of energy that needs a physical body to retain balance and stability. Were all the GM bodies to be destroyed and the entity unable, for any reason, to find a replacement, Mazeworld's stability would then be in jeopardy, and thus in danger of collapsing, which would have the terminally catastrophic effect of making it implode within [[The Interloper]], causing Mazeworld to cease existing altogether. Such a scenario is only possible if whatever has defeated the GMs would die shortly after, or somehow leave the realm.
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Among Hebizuka's more occasional roles are those of population control in the direct sense; she can decide which creatures can become part of the Mazes' bestiary, adding and removing creatures at her leisure. She can also create, assign, and delete positions within the Personnel, keep track of the population meters for each species, and directly influence what technology level the Mazes' inhabitants are able to work with and live off of. The Mazes have gone through several configurations and several combinations of species, societal systems and technology levels.
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=== Notes ===
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In a general sense, the powers of an Administrator are theoretically limitless; the only restrictions seem to be self-imposed,out of a personal desire to simply watch the Mazes and its inhabitants come and go with the tools and technology they have available, and out of interest, if not fascination in the many ongoing conflicts between each of the various creatures and [[Factions]] living in the world that she oversees, and feeling that she has no right to intervene and that these conflicts should be resolved on their own, without any intervention on her part.
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The Game Masters can be encountered as fought enemies.
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*[[Hebizuka Jinkou (encounter)|Hebizuka]] alone is the final boss of [[Special events|Survival Mode]].
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In theory, if another person were to be elevated to the status of Administrator, depending on if Hebizuka would still be there or not, it is likely that the way the world is managed would be affected in turn. And it would also seem that Hebizuka herself [[Endgame|isn't opposed to the idea of someone else running the show]], as long as whoever comes to rise to her status is sufficiently worthy. Enter the [[Contestant]]...
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*[[game masters encounter|The GMs]] are encountered during [[Endgame|secret ending]] fights.
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=== Notable quotes ===
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*"Random Number God / She gives us lots of good stuff / Yet She may kill us" - Haiku written by [[Banagher Links]] about '''Hebizuka'''.
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== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Characters]]
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*[[Mazeworld]]
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*[[MazeWorld]]
*[[Startgame]]
*[[Startgame]]
*[[Endgame]]
*[[Endgame]]

Latest revision as of 18:42, 5 April 2016

This article is about the in-game term. For the real-life administrator and author, i.e. the real life person who has written and runs MazeWorld, see Tempest.

An Administrator (also referred to as an Admin) is the common name given to the supernatural and deity-like being that rules and administrates MazeWorld. The only known administrator is Hebizuka Jinkou, making her the effective overseer of the Mazes in their entirety.

Origins and abilities

An immortal and immaterial concentration of sentient energy, referred to as the Entity, forms what is essentially the Admin's "soul". The Entity has the power to inhabit one or many "shells", which is nothing more than a host body. While this body they inhabit needs not to be originally that of a living creature, the Entity prefers to inhabit the bodies of living creatures and seem to be attracted by beings of peculiar, unique character and personality. Creatures inhabited by the Entity are also known to have no need to eat, drink, sleep, or reproduce, though can choose to do so as they please and if they so wish. Any shell the Entity chooses to inhabit, automatically reaches the status of Administrator, as well as the above described traits (immortality, inediate, etc). The Entity does not overtake or alter their shells' personality, but does ensure they are aware and conscious of their newfound capabilities.

The Admin's immense power and near complete control of MazeWorld is explained by the fact the Entity inhabiting them has created the entire realm, and maintains its existence as long as the Entity can inhabit a shell - in order for the realm to remain stable and keep its coherence, the source of this realm must also preserve its stability and coherence. It is unknown why or how MazeWorld was created at all, and Hebizuka herself has never given any insight or explanation, despite there being no evidence that any beings have been inhabited by the Entity before her.

The Entity, when threatened by a being sufficiently strong to challenge its shells directly, seems to "disable" those shells' immortality (though they remain extremely resistant to damage); it seems capable of recognizing worthy potential challengers and will encourage the current Admin to fight whomever is contending to "succeed" to them. As such, the Entity seems to have a mind on its own in the sense that it will choose, as its new shells, the bodies of whoever defeated the current one. Depending on the situation, the Entity can simply inhabit the new bodies and also remain in the current ones' (addition process), or leave altogether the old ones and elevate the new ones to Admin status (replacement process).

Should it fail to find at least one new suitable shell, the Entity's stability will be compromised, and it will lose its coherence and eventually collapse. This threatens the entire realm, which can be potentially completely erased from existence (termination process) as a result. It must be noted that there are no limits on how many beings the Entity can inhabit at once - while it needs at least one to sustain itself, it can inhabit as many as required, it would simply mean all of the resulting Admins would need to cooperate to manage the Mazes together.

Identity and purpose

Currently there is only one Administrator: Hebizuka Jinkou.

Hebizuka Jinkou

Hebizuka Jinkou redirects here.

  • Form: Youkai female (species: nure-onna)

Hebizuka Jinkou, sometimes referred to as "Lady Hebizuka" by members of the personnel, and informally but very occasionally as "Hebi", is currently the only Administrator.

Being the only Admin, she performs various tasks as the Administrator of the Mazes; primarily as an overseer, watching over the Mazes, its inhabitants and creatures, and their whereabouts. She also serves as the direct superior to the top positions in the Mazes, and may occasionally give direct orders to the personnel if there needs to be something done that doesn't require direct Admin intervention. Typically however, Hebizuka contents herself with simply watching the Mazes rather than intervene directly, finding the world to be, in her words, "much more interesting when it achieves things on its own rather than being manipulated to do so".

Among Hebizuka's more occasional roles are those of population control in the direct sense; she can decide which creatures can become part of the Mazes' bestiary, adding and removing creatures at her leisure. She can also create, assign, and delete positions within the Personnel, keep track of the population meters for each species, and directly influence what technology level the Mazes' inhabitants are able to work with and live off of. The Mazes have gone through several configurations and several combinations of species, societal systems and technology levels.

In a general sense, the powers of an Administrator are theoretically limitless; the only restrictions seem to be self-imposed,out of a personal desire to simply watch the Mazes and its inhabitants come and go with the tools and technology they have available, and out of interest, if not fascination in the many ongoing conflicts between each of the various creatures and Factions living in the world that she oversees, and feeling that she has no right to intervene and that these conflicts should be resolved on their own, without any intervention on her part.

In theory, if another person were to be elevated to the status of Administrator, depending on if Hebizuka would still be there or not, it is likely that the way the world is managed would be affected in turn. And it would also seem that Hebizuka herself isn't opposed to the idea of someone else running the show, as long as whoever comes to rise to her status is sufficiently worthy. Enter the Contestant...

See also